Schwab Scraps Hawaii Trip for Firm’s Top Employees

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By Anne Tergesen and Jason Zweig

Charles Schwab Corp. is scaling back a sales-incentive program designed to reward its top employees with all-expenses-paid trips.

In an email to its staff Friday, the discount brokerage and investment firm said that rather than take members of its Chairman’s Club to Hawaii next spring, Schwab will pay $5,000 after taxes and give them a paid week off.

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This article was originally published on The Wall Street Journal.


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